12 November
It’s the feast day of Theodore the Studite (b. 759), abbot and opponent of iconoclasm.
Above: Detail, mosaic of Theodore in Hosios Loukas Monastery, Boeotia, Greece (early 11th century)
Also, born in 1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator.
For to me, this word Art, in its largest sense, signifies those who take pleasure in their work... Artist-carpenters who adjust with joy dovetails and mortises; artist-masons who handle lovingly their trowels; artist-cab drivers, proud of treating their horses humanely-what an ideal state of society that would be.